Kubernetes alert enrichment and routing on top of Prometheus: adds pod logs, events and graphs to alerts and sends them to Slack, Teams and other sinks. Open source core plus a paid SaaS.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Open source
- Yes (MIT)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Website
- home.robusta.dev
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Kubernetes and container monitoring checklist
8 of 10 confirmed in Robusta's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Kubernetes.
- Cluster, node and pod metrics Yes
- Kubernetes events Yes
- Pod logs Yes
- Cluster view Not confirmed
- Requests and limits advice Yes
- Change timeline Yes
- Network visibility Not confirmed
- Alerting Yes
- Multi-cluster Yes
- Runs in your cluster Yes
Metrics, events and logs appear as alert enrichment (resource graphs, pod logs, K8s-native triggers). Rightsizing via KRR; UI is SaaS or self-hosted (enterprise).
Checked against: github.com, docs.robusta.dev, docs.robusta.dev (2), docs.robusta.dev (3), docs.robusta.dev (4)
Alert routing and correlation checklist
6 of 10 confirmed in Robusta's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Alert routing.
- Many alert sources Yes
- Deduplication Not confirmed
- Grouping or correlation Yes
- Silences or maintenance Yes
- Routing rules Yes
- Inhibition or dependencies Not confirmed
- Enrichment Yes
- Hands off to on-call Yes
- Alert console Not confirmed
- Two-way sync Not confirmed
Grouping is Slack threads only; alert UI is the separate Robusta SaaS; dedup, inhibition and ack sync not documented
Checked against: github.com, docs.robusta.dev, docs.robusta.dev (2), docs.robusta.dev (3), docs.robusta.dev (4), docs.robusta.dev (5)
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